Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?

他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者，而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序？

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So that's a really important type of an application that we can use MO theory for that we weren't able to do with our Lewis structures.

这是MO理论,在Lewis结构,不能用时的,非常重要的应用。

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